PNCA Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series

October 22, 2009

Pacific Northwest College of Art presents a new evening Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series taking place on Thursday nights throughout the academic year. Lectures are an integral part of PNCA’s two graduate programs, the MFA in Visual Studies and the MFA in Applied Craft and Design, offered jointly with Oregon College of Art and Craft.

MFA Applied Craft and Design Lectures take place at 6:30pm in MFA in the Applied Craft and Design Studios at The Bison Building, 421 NE 10th Ave. and Glisan Street in Portland.

MFA Visual Studies Lectures take place at 6:30 p.m., in The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St. in Portland—unless otherwise noted.

All lectures are free and open to the public.


MFA in Applied Craft and Design
“Steve Badanes”:https://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/...
Thursday, September 2

Founding member of design-build firm, Jersey Devil; Chair of the University of Washington College of Built Environments.

MFA in Visual Studies
“Ward Shelley”:https://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/...
Thursday, September 24

New York-based artist

MFA in Visual Studies
“Martin Kersels”:https://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/...
Thursday, October 8

Co-director of the art program at California Institute of the Arts, multi-media performance and visual artist

MFA in Visual Studies
“Alix Pearlstein”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, October 14

12:30pm, PNCA, 1241 NW Johnson St.
New York-based multimedia artist

MFA in Visual Studies
“Kate Gilmore”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, October 15

12:30pm, PNCA, 1241 NW Johnson St.
New York-based video artist

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
“Zahid Sardar”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, October 22

Author, designer, Design Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
“Ellen Dissanayake”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, October 29

Scholar and author, faculty at University of Washington

MFA in Visual Studies
“Caldera Residency Report”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1407&list_type=10&cat=1&year=2009, with Caldera students, Alix Pearlstein and PNCA faculty member Stephen Slappe
Friday, October 30

12:30pm, PNCA, 1241 NW Johnson St.

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
“Aly Khalifa”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, November 12

Product developer, founder of the creative collaborative Designbox

MFA in Visual Studies
“Nina Katchadourian”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, November 19

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist

MFA in Visual Studies
“Sandow Birk”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Wednesday, December 2

12:30pm, 1241 NW Johnson St
Los Angeles-based multimedia artist


MFA in Visual Studies
“Laura Parnes”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, December 10

Brooklyn-based video/installation artist

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
Arthur Hash
Thursday, January 21

Jewelry designer and craftsman

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
“Po Shun Leong”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/exposure/c...
Thursday, January 28

Artist, former architect, sculptor, furniture maker

MFA in Visual Studies
Patty Chang
Thursday, February 18

Performer, time-based sculptor

MFA in Visual Studies
Mary Weatherford
Thursday, February 25

Los Angeles-based painter

MFA in Visual Studies
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Thursday, March 11

Los Angeles-based multimedia artist

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
Susan Brandeis
Thursday, March 18

Fiber artist, Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Art and Design at North Carolina State University

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
Shashi Caan
Thursday, April 1

Interior and product designer, founder of The Shashi Caan Collective, former Director of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design.

MFA in Visual Studies
Renny Pritikin
Thursday, April 8

Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California Davis, former Chief Curator for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

MFA in Applied Craft and Design
Natalie Chanin
Thursday, April 15

Alabama-based artist and designer, proprietor of Alabama Chanin


“Learn more about the MFA in Applied Craft and Design.”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/programs/m...

“Learn more about the MFA in Visual Studies.”:http://pnca.willamette.edu/programs/m...